I.A. Ansari, J.

1. This Appeal under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, has arisen out of the award, dated 12.5.2004, passed by the learned Member, MACT, Aizawl, in MAC Case No. 34/2002, directing the present insurer-appellant to pay Rs. 3,12,000 as compensation to the claimant-respondent within one month from the date of the award failing which interest at the rate of 9% per annum would accrue on the awarded amount until full payment is made.

2. The material facts, which have led to the present appeal, may be set out as follows:

The Claimant-respondent No. 1 instituted the MAC Case No. 34/2003 aforementioned under Section 166 of the MV Act, 1988, claiming compensation for the injuries sustained, his case being, in brief, this : The claimant, aged about 40 years, was, at the relevant point of time, employed as a driver by the respondent No. 2 herein to drive his taxi bearing registration No. MZ01-A-5590 and used to receive Rs. 2,500 as salary per month. On 24.7.2000, when the claimant was driving the said vehicle, another vehicle, namely, Tata Sumo, bearing registration No. MZ01-A-9497, came from the opposite direction and collided against the said taxi at Tuipui, Th